Impolitico
I first read about the brouhaha over the Politico trademark claim against the College Politico blog on Instapundit: ED MORRISSEY: “Who owns the word ‘Politico’?” The blogosphere has been very good to Politico, and I think they should bear in mind the ill-will they’re incurring as a result of their heavy-handed legal tactics. This is like [...]

Top ten list
Okay, it’s a little late to actually attend his talk — but then again, most of LOC readers don’t really get to Iowa Idaho that often.  Still, it’s worth clicking around Stephen Nipper’s “Ten Things Every Designer Needs to Know about Copyrights and Trademarks” blog post (the post of the talk) (actually, not a post- [...]

Twisn’t it rich
Here is the latest roundup of topical re-tweets that were tweeted to followers @roncoleman in the last week or so: @gfiremark New William Patry book arrives — with a new blog!http://bit.ly/INHCK @eschaeff Lawyers tripped up online: “A Legal Battle: Online Attitude vs. Rules of the Bar,” NY Times, http://bit.ly/8i2As @ptolawyer Google has yet to appease stakeholders concerned with privacy [...]

Commented on “The Trademark Blog”
Marty Schwimmer: IDEA v PETA (SDNY August 298 2009): Plaintiff, no doubt aware that statutory damages are only available for post-registration copyright infringements that are not part of a continuing, ongoing series of infringing acts of the same kind as those engaged by defendant prior to the effective date of registration, alleged in its amended complaint [...]

Dumb bomb
Courthouse News Service picks up on a final ruling in a case that made everyone titter last fall: A Long Island man infringed on Pfizer’s trademark by towing a 20-foot replica missile with “Viva Viagra” painted on its side through midtown Manhattan, eventually parking it in front of the drugmaker’s 42nd Street headquarters, a federal [...]